Work samples
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this book will not save you
Selected poems from this book will not save you (dogleech books, 2024)
Available for Purchase$13 USD, dogleech books via Lulu.com
About Nat
nat raum (they/them, b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore, MD. They graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018 with a BFA in Photography and Book Arts and also hold an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from The University of Baltimore, where they also served as managing editor of both the school’s literary journal, Welter, and student-run press, Plork Press. nat… more
journal of various worries
Straddling the line between poetry and prose, this collection mixes the vignetted style of Bluets with the nonlinear narrative structure of (500) Days of Summer to explore themes of queerness, disability, trauma, and anticapitalism. The collection will release in October 2026 with Gnashing Teeth Publishing.
fruits of the valley
fruits of the valley is a complex love letter to the city of Baltimore, where I was born, raised, and currently live. The collection dives deep into childhood, drawing upon memory as much as media and painting a portrait of youth surrounded by family and video games before a wobbly slide into queer adulthood. This book will release with Querencia Press in 2026.
april, buttersoft
april, buttersoft is a poetry microchapbook written during the 2025 Aurelie30 challenge. It was published in November 2025 by Whittle Micro-Press.
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april, buttersoft
april, buttersoft (Whittle Micro-Press, 2025)
Available for Purchasefree to download, Whittle Micro-Press
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april, buttersoft coverCover of april, buttersoft (Whittle Micro-Press, 2025), designed by Kate Netwal
with gasoline
with gasoline defiantly carves out a space for trans anger in an increasingly hostile world, where trans people often have to conform to a sanitized image of a polite, pliable, and otherwise "perfect" trans person to be accepted by society—if they are accepted at all. This poetry chapbook released with kith books in August 2025.
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with gasoline
Selected poems from with gasoline (kith books, 2025)
Available for Purchase$10, kith books
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with gasoline coverCover of with gasoline (kith books, 2025), designed by the author
this book will not save you
this book will not save you explores intersections of alcoholism, institutionalization, queerness, and borderline personality disorder. The book’s first section delves heavily into the experience of institutionalization, asking essential questions about healing and trauma. The second flashes back to the experience of alcoholism and untreated borderline personality disorder, providing context as to the events that led to the first section’s hospitalization. The third section, written from the present perspective, explores manifestations of queerness and joy as ongoing acts of healing. This full-length poetry collection released with dogleech books in November 2024
camera indomita
The poems in camera indomita explore queerness, borderline personality disorder, alcoholism, and trauma through the framework of photography and coming of age in an art school environment. This self-published book was created as part of the author's MFA thesis.
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camera indomita
Selected poems from camera indomita (self-published, 2024)
Available for Purchase$17, natraum.com
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camera indomita coverCover of camera indomita (2024), designed by the author
specter dust
This poetry chapbook began as an exploration of objects as agents for memory, examining my relationships with late and other former loved ones through the things they left behind. Bite-size poems heavily inspired by Witcher game lore explore grief and trauma from the perspective of a specter looking to depart the world of the living in peace. This title released with Bullshit Lit in July 2022.
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specter dust
Selected poems from specter dust (Bullshit Lit, 2022)
Available for Purchase$15, Bullshit Lit
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specter dust coverCover of specter dust (Bullshit Lit, 2022), designed by Veronica Bennett
you stupid slut
you stupid slut is a hybrid memoir that started as an ode to my carefree early 20s and slowly turned into a reckoning with who the fuck I thought I was. Diving deep into a pool of memories from (loosely) 2014-2019 that I had (almost entirely) tried to forget about, I grapple with the role that my own reckless behavior played in the immense amount of harm this period of my life caused me. It's about reckoning with a loss of faith in love and humanity, but also so much about the ways I so desperately needed to prove I was lovable—as well as the gender confusion created by indulging in a pattern of self-destructive hypersexuality and substance abuse, both of which were born as coping mechanisms for unresolved emotional trauma. you stupid slut functions as an unrated version of my previous work in eventually i will learn to stop saying sorry, recollecting my destructively performative femininity through poetry, prose, form experiments, scraps of paper I probably shouldn’t have saved, and forgotten disposable camera snapshots. This hybrid memoir will rerelease with Bullshit Lit in 2026.












